The exhibition is organized in three major sections: Polis (City), Acropolis and Necropolis, the two former representing the realm of daily life (public and private), the latter approaching aspects of the
afterlife.
Finds from the Polis included parts of life-size statues, pottery of various periods, weapons, tools, and jewellery.
The Acropolis contributed figurines, pottery, and other items from shrines, as well as architectural members and several inscriptions bearing testimony to the rules, laws, and treaties that governed public life at Eleutherna.
Finally, there is the important Necropolis, which manifests all three known funerary practices: simple inhumations, pithos burials, and cremations.
These come from the Orthi Petra cemetery and date mainly to the period of the Homeric epics (9th-7th c. BC), thus helping to visualize the world described in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This section included, also, a detailed reconstruction of a tomb with its contents and the monument that stood above it, as well as fragments of Daedalic and Archaic statues and grave stelae.
Among them, the most precious was undoubtedly the famous “lady of Auxerre”,a small limestone statue depicting an Archaic goddess (perhaps the young Persephone, or else a Kore), that traveled from the Louvre to the Museum of Cycladic Art especially for this exhibition.